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to be just like our older brother. It is this institutionalized position as the lesser sibling, peripheral voyeur and perpetual window-shopper at the pop-culture marketplace, that informs these films and lends them a potential for truly relevant rapport among
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features Nick as a burglar who infiltrates a secret society of billionaires to steal a microchip that contains the secret necessary to save humanity from destruction, while simultaneously trying to win the heart of Carmel Frosst (Kathy
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